Whew! What a week it was last week… Last Wednesday, I brought pal and photog instructor guru Zack Arias into my studio for another episiode of chasejarvisLIVE. We chatted photography for 2 hours and took questions from the live Twitter audience via #cjlive. Was a blast. While about 20,000 of you caught the interview LIVE–it seemed like I got at least that many tweets/emails/fbook requests to post it again here on the blog, so… As you wish. Here ’tis.
From there, we shipped Zack and his crew into our creativeLIVE studio where he put on one heckuva studio lighting course all day Friday, Saturday and Sunday. Hopefully you saw the interwebs booming, especially with the @creativeLIVE and #askzack tags. I’m pretty sure Zack swiped some ratings from the World Cup. Or at least we had fun trying. I wanted to give a huge shoutout to Zack and his team for an amazing effort. You guys and gals nailed it. Also a shoutout also to all the manufacturers that kicked in gear for Zack to give away, as well as uber thanks to B&H Photo Video for their support of the creativeLIVE studio and G-Technology for keeping our gobs and gobs of data safe. They support us, please support them. I hope lots of you tuned in. And if you didn’t but wished you had, the course is available for download here.
While I’ve got you, I wanted to ask for your feedback. Not somebody else’s…YOURS. In the comments below, we’re looking to find out a few things with the goal of making creativeLIVE the best it can be. Tell us whatever you want, but please help us by answering some or all of the following particulars about our LIVE, free, worldwide creative education platform:
1. What makes the creativeLIVE approach different, better, worse? How does our class format compare to others?
2. Where do you live? We want to understand the breadth of our audience with the comments on this post. Where are you from, and when are you watching the LIVE feed?
3. Does this live worldwide format really work? This is the important part. What does the experience feel like to you? Can you help describe this format to someone who’s never seen it?
Thanks for taking the time! If you’re new here, I invite you to subscribe/follow via links above and to the right. Lots more stuff heading your way soon on all our channels…
Creative live is SO amazing.
To have all of these top pro’s sharing information with the masses is so humbling. i sat through every hour of both the Zack Arias and Vince LaForet workshops, and purchased the studio lighting one.
I am HUNGRY for knowlege – these workshops mean so much to someone like me, and i’ve already been putting into practice some of the tips and techniques that i’ve absorbed like a sponge.
it totally blows my mind that these guys are broadcasting LIVE and with WORLD interaction. not only the pro’s in front of the camera, but your crew is AMAZING. the work that they put into these things must be SO IMMENSE. everyone involved is just so incredible.
PLease keep up the phenomenal work, you and everyone involved with CreativeLive are changing the creative landscape of the world.
thanks so much.
//d.
I have yet to see the seminar, as I was working the whole weekend, but I bought the seminar, and am really looking forward to viewing it!
I live in Denmark, and as much as I appreciate the re-broadcast to make it possible for people in all timezones to follow, I would LOVE to see a re-broadcast at a more convenient time. Staying up till 3am or getting up at 5am is pretty much a bad proposition either way.
Another thing I would love to see, would be the offering of a monthly, quarterly or yearly fee, to gain access to downloads for the various workshops. I have already bought three courses, and although it is great with the before-end-of-course-discount, I fear that I will end up spending more than $1,000 total in the year to come with all the great workshops, training and classes I am sure you have planned. Getting an additional discount for buying ALL the workshop, training and classes seems like a good idea to me 🙂
One final thing: I LOVE the drawing and giving away of prizes during the classes, but I WISH you guys would also remember (and perhaps slightly favor) those of us who cannot stay online and send out tweets, but instead make the choice to buy the classes for download. Perhaps it could be an additional incentive to make a couple of prizes and drawings exclusive to those who actually BUY the classes with the before-end-of-course-discount.
As a whole I think the creativLIVE format is an amazing idea. It makes training available worldwide for a BARGAIN. Living in Denmark, I would most likely NEVER get the opportunity to get in a workshop with Zack Arias, Vincent Laforet og John Greengo – and through the creativeLIVE initiative – I am able to attend first class workshops courses and training from across the globe! I absolutely LOVE it!
The format as a whole works perfectly. I love the fact that it is so interactive, I have posted questions in chat and on Twitter during live events, and have had them answered immediately. Absolutely amazing!
To sum it all up: I TRULY appreciate what you guys are doing with creativeLIVE, and cannot wait to continue to support you in your efforts! I HATE fanboys – but you seriously hit a note that TRULY resonates with this initiative!
With best regards
Henrik Delfer (Denmark)
1. What makes the creativeLIVE approach different, better, worse? How does our class format compare to others?
I think it is better because of the interactivity through social media allows the viewer to actively participate. It helps shape the classes to more closely fit the viewers’ needs, in a smooth and easy method, that otherwise would be difficult in such a remote manner. The global format however, does dilute that connectivity simply by sheer volume of viewers; a slight hinderance overall though, considering many people tend to have similar questions..
2. Where do you live? We want to understand the breadth of our audience with the comments on this post. Where are you from, and when are you watching the LIVE feed?
I live in Marquette, Michigan. I’m a student originally from Detroit. I’m watching the live feed during all of my spare time: In the kitchen while making food, and at my desk space at home. The fact that Marquette isn’t very connected with culture or the photo industry, makes me try and get as much as I can from the internet.
3. Does this live worldwide format really work? This is the important part. What does the experience feel like to you? Can you help describe this format to someone who’s never seen it?
It works well for me I think. The format feels very similar to some of my studio courses at school, with instruction, followed by Q&A; with an instructor I otherwise wouldn’t have access to. There is an added benefit in that the format lends itself well to being very content-filled because the courses themselves are more specialized than a general course.
Thank you for putting all of this on. Wonderful idea, and I plan to buy the Zack Arias course as soon as I can pull together the extra funds!
First of all – Zack’s class was really the best I’ve ever seen of its kind. I love seeing a TEACHER (not an instructor – theres a BIG difference) at work. I put MY money where my mouth is by buying the classes just as you asked Zack to. Give me a few more classes like that for $79/$129 and it’s greatly more valuable than the several thousand dollars of college education I shelled out for years ago.
To answer your 3 questions:
1) The creativeLIVE approach is great in that its FREE! But more important is quality of the teachers. If I didn’t know the reputation and quality of work of the teacher – I would not watch – even if it was always free.
2) I live in Houston TX. The live feeds are generally when I am at work – but I don’t mind watching while I work (and neither does my boss). I have also watched a re-watch later in the evening a few times for a second free viewing if I feel I needed whatever it was beat into my brain more or if it was JUST that interesting – which was the case with Zack’s class.
3) I think the format is fine – I would describe it to someone else as being like a live broadcast TV show of a college class or workshop event – only better because of the quality of the teachers.
My only complaint about the creativeLIVE video feeds has been that the audio needs to be better normalized. I find myself constantly turning up and down my volume to compensate.
Thanks again – keep them coming, and I’ll keep working these classes into my budget! 🙂
1. What makes the creativeLIVE approach different, better, worse? How does our class format compare to others?
You are doing amazing work and service with CreativeLive, Chase. The fact that you are bringing the top people in the field to us for free is remarkable. I have a young child and a day job that requires travel, so my time is limited and I’m not often able to commit the time to watch when it’s live. However, I’ve taken advantage of the extremely reasonably priced pre-pay option for downloads and catch up on my laptop/ipod when I have a moment. I’ve learned so much. Thank you and please keep it up!
2. Where do you live? We want to understand the breadth of our audience with the comments on this post. Where are you from, and when are you watching the LIVE feed?
NYC
3. Does this live worldwide format really work? This is the important part. What does the experience feel like to you? Can you help describe this format to someone who’s never seen it?
I’m not sure how it works time-zone-wise outside of the States, but I love the thought that the worldwide creative community is coming together to learn. Very romantic.